Better Safe Than Sorry? Slow Boats, Chicken Buses, and the Radical Choice to Trust the World What if the biggest risk in life isn’t taking chances – but letting fear stop you from taking them at all? At twenty-one, Dean Klinkenberg was accepted into a study-abroad program in Grenoble, France — and backed out. The…
Buy Murder on the Mississippi Find an online retailer Buy it at an independent bookstore Some sins refuse to stay buried. Travel writer Frank Dodge expects a routine assignment profiling the elegant River Voyager steamboat as it cruises the Mississippi from New Orleans to Memphis. What he gets instead is a front-row seat to a…
A stolen treasure. A scandalous affair. This was not the assignment he signed up for. Plagued by self-doubt, novice freelance writer Frank Dodge is determined to prove he made the right choice to start a new career. Excited about an assignment to write a profile of a St. Louis institution, his mood is deflated when…
The headline is explosive. The clock is ticking. Can he uncover the lies before a community self-destructs? Freelance journalist Frank Dodge vowed to stay by his estranged lover’s side until the bitter end. But when he’s offered a plum assignment covering the economic impact of frac sand mining, he’s torn between his career and reconciling…
He’s got his first plum assignment. But has this travel writer bitten off more than he can chew? Frank Dodge can’t wait to dig into what he hopes is the biggest story of his career. Hired by a national magazine to pen a piece on the Midwest culinary scene, he brings his appetite for a…
He knows not to bury the lead. But if he follows this story, he could end up six feet under… Travel writer Frank Dodge needs a breakout piece to resurrect his sinking career. So when he gets a tip about one of the last surviving descendants of the notorious mobster John Looney, he drops everything…
